Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...
Mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts: The geological extinction record : history, data, biases, and testing / Norman MacLeod -- Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions : an update / David P.G ...
A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...
Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...
A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...